Desert Islands Discs

Desert Islands Disc is a long running programme on BBC channel 4 where people are asked to pick

- 8 records
- 1 book, apart from The Bible and the Complete Works of Shakespeare (it's English!!)
and 1 luxury item they would take to a desert island if they had the choice.

My records:

1. The Prophet's Song by Queen
2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles
3. Casta Diva by Maria Callas
4. Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield
5. Resurrection by Brian May
6. Tubular Bells (original) by Mike Oldfield
7. Innuendo by Queen
8. Una Furtiva Lagrima - by Luciano Pavarotti

Book
"A Prayer For Owen Meany" by John Irving

Luxury Item:
My PC

Hi, YV!

How are you? I hope you're doing fine. Great thread!

Well, on a desert island I wouldn't be able to listen to recordings. Where would I get the power from? :op I'd probably be happy if I just happened to succeed in making myself some fire - it's not easy, I remember Tom Hanks having a bad time doing this in one of his movies! : -)))  

As for the reading:

- Joseph Conrad's [i]Nostromo[/i] or [i]Heart of Darkness[/i]. Give me any one of these any time - these books rock like few I have ever read.

And then I'd have to use the paper for other purposes, I think... :op To make fire, for instance. :-))

Take care, Barb, and have a good day!

P.S.: I liked the thread and I'm going to list my favorite recordings, yes! It's just that I'm a bit in a hurry now and I know I'd have terrible doubts about taking only 8 out of so many I love. lol

I would bring full albums.

My records:

1. A Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis
2. Revolver by The Beatles
3. Business As Usual by Men At Work
4. Queen's Greatest Hits
5. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
6. Relayer - Yes
7. Topanga - Colin Hay
8. Symphony #6 Beethoven - LSO w/ Solti conducting

Book
Playboys College Girls edition, 1996

Luxury Item:
A record player

Good luck playing your records, Barbara.

You can play cds on a pc, and look up youtube!
i am meant to be studying, wish I could go to a desert island to escape my exams.  Why did working and studying at the same time seem like a good idea?
When I am recovered from exams I will be back with my supplies.

i was only talking about this the other day lol

8 records

sound and vision-bowie
innuendo-queen
love missile f1-11---sigue sigue sputnik
reap the wild wind-ultravox
the end-the doors
bela legusi's dead-bauhaus
insomnia-faithless and



keeping the dream alive-freiheit



book



it-stephen king



accessory



a boat

No idea about the records but the book would be Paul Auster's 'Moon Palace'.

What if there were some troubles during the trip and we all ended up landing on the same island? I could borrow your recordings and books, except for Micrówave's dense treatise on human anatomy. :-))

I'm still trying to figure out how to get electric energy to play the recordings. If there were a great fall in the island and I managed to gradually build a small plant there, I think I could get some energy. I'd do some mining too in order to see if there was any coal. Or yet, I could try melting iron and cooper ore, provided there were some, and building a turbine to get electric energy from wind!!! It'd be all in such small scale given the little, though steady, demand for the power supply...no way of avoiding to contribute with my share to global warming, though. Not even on the desert island! :op

Now that I figured that out...

1) News of The World - Queen
2) A Night At the Opera - Queen
3) Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
4) A Day At The Races - Queen
5) Jazz - Queen
6) The Game - Queen
7) Queen II - Queen
8) Live at the bowl - Queen

Book I have already said...hm...luxury item: at least some panties and bras, we never know...these desert islands always turn out to have more people, or even weird creatures, it's always like that in the movies.

This thread is scary. I remember Tom Hanks hurting his hands to get fire out of wood pieces and sticks.

Yeah, I like this thread a lot!!! =)

[b]Records[/b]
1. Brian Wilson - Self-Titled Album
2. Queen - Hot Space
3. Queen - Play The Game (7")
4. Queen - Greatest Hits
5. The Beach Boys - Today!
6. Baltimora - Living In The Background
7. The Beach Boys - Getcha Back (7")
8. Queen - Innuendo
9. Queen - News Of The World
10. Brian Wilson - Melt Away (7")

[b] Book [/b]
"The Stand" by Stephen King
[b]
Luxury Item[/b]
My CD/CASS/VINYL/RADIO combination player to play the records and to listen to the radio.

Now, I'd need power so I'd have to build something like a water wheel to create electricity. Or maybe I'll swim home and get an extension cord.

It's just a game - no need to worry about electricity :-)

Records

1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2. Queen - Live Killers
3. Queen - A Night At The Opera
4. Ramones - Weird Tales of the Ramones
5. Clash - The Clash
6. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here Come The Sex Pistols
7. Best Of Mozart :)
8. The Best Air Guitar Album On The World ...Ever

Books

The Iliad / The Odyssey

Luxury Item - a CD player :)

Discs:
1. Queen II(Queen)
2. Led Zeppelin IV(Led Zeppelin)
3. The Wall(Pink Floyd)
4. Rock in Rio(Iron Maiden)
5. Painkiller(Judas Priest)
6. Use Your Illusion I(Guns N' Roses)
7. Use Your Illusion II(Guns N' Roses)
8. Master of Puppets(Metallica)

Book:
Catcher in the Rye

Luxury item:
PC

That's right, Yara!!!  I ain't sharing!!!

And you all are lying about not bringing your porn collection.  No one's gonna know and you're gonna be there an awfully long time.  Hard drives crash.

[QUOTE]

 



[b]Micrówave wrote: [/b]



That's right, Yara!!!  I ain't sharing!!!

And you all are lying about not bringing your porn collection.  No one's gonna know and you're gonna be there an awfully long time.  Hard drives crash.

[/QUOTE]
lets hope there's coconuts and a friendly goat then...

[QUOTE]

[b]Yara wrote: [/b]

What if there were some troubles during the trip and we all ended up landing on the same island? I could borrow your recordings and books, except for Micrówave's dense treatise on human anatomy. :-))

I'm still trying to figure out how to get electric energy to play the recordings. If there were a great fall in the island and I managed to gradually build a small plant there, I think I could get some energy. I'd do some mining too in order to see if there was any coal. Or yet, I could try melting iron and cooper ore, provided there were some, and building a turbine to get electric energy from wind!!! It'd be all in such small scale given the little, though steady, demand for the power supply...no way of avoiding to contribute with my share to global warming, though. Not even on the desert island! :op

Now that I figured that out...

1) News of The World - Queen
2) A Night At the Opera - Queen
3) Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
4) A Day At The Races - Queen
5) Jazz - Queen
6) The Game - Queen
7) Queen II - Queen
8) Live at the bowl - Queen

Book I have already said...hm...luxury item: at least some panties and bras, we never know...these desert islands always turn out to have more people, or even weird creatures, it's always like that in the movies.

This thread is scary. I remember Tom Hanks hurting his hands to get fire out of wood pieces and sticks.  [/QUOTE] you build youself a bike out of old washed up wood and turtleshells and then climb aboard and fart for all your worth until youve created enough energy to suck in a black hole :-]

[QUOTE]

 



[b]JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: [/b]



you build youself a bike out of old washed up wood and turtleshells and then climb aboard and fart for all your worth until youve created enough energy to suck in a black hole :-]

[/QUOTE]
As far as combustion goes, I'm sure it'd be effective. But such a distinctive and powerful soprano fart would probably kill all the fauna and flora of the region and leave me without food. Besides, I have a natural smell that, due to hormonal issues, isn't that similar, let's say, to a Channel No.5 fragrance. ;-)))

There can't be any net increase in stinkness; otherwise, the environment on which I depend for living would be seriously endangered.

So, you still have to help me sort it out, Joxer, you are the pirate! :-) I'd love to use the turtle skin, with the scales and all of that, though, to protect my skin from the sun. But would I have the courage to do anything bad to the turtle?

No! So I say: let's do some mining, get some coal or ore and get the power. Men do the mining. I do the whining. :-))  

I'm thinking about all this very carefully, I don't go to a desert island without taking some precautions. :op